Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections announcing new release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366 Recap Podcast
Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366
This week’s newsletter announces draft BIPs for Utreexo, summarizes continued discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate, and describes a proposal to allow nodes to share their block templates to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. We also include a correction to last week’s newsletter and a recommendation to readers.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365
This week’s newsletter summarizes the results of a test of compact block relay prefilling and links to a mempool-based fee estimation library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner to discuss Newsletter #364.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364
This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer services, and examines the impact of switching to quantum-resistant signature algorithms on HD wallets, scriptless multisig, and silent payments. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza to discuss Newsletter #363.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Josh Doman and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #362.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362
This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black to discuss Newsletter #361.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus and listing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing support for
Hin BIP32 paths in the BIP380 specification of descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing top questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #359.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to limit public participation in Bitcoin Core repositories, announces a significant improvements to BitVM-style contracts, and summarizes research into LN channel rebalancing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent changes to clients and services, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #358.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358
This week’s newsletter describes how the selfish mining danger threshold can be calculated, summarizes an idea about preventing filtering of high feerate transactions, seeks feedback about a proposed change to BIP390
musig()descriptors, and announces a new library for encrypting descriptors. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #357.
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